NookColor is $250. But it has no cameras and it has to be hacked to become an Android tablet. The hacking can go smoothly — or not. But then when Barnes & Noble pushes out updates, the Sisyphean rock rolls down the hill again.

Samsung 7″ Galaxy Tab has two cameras, faster CPU, same screen resolution (though perhaps colors don’t pop as they do on the NookColor), and it’s natively an Android tablet.

A $150 premium over the NookColor is, I think, worth it for the Galaxy Tab.